A Maltese investigative journalist who exposed the island nation's links to offshore tax havens through the leaked Panama Papers was killed Monday when a bomb exploded in her car, the prime minister said.

A Maltese investigative journalist who exposed the island nation's links to offshore tax havens through the leaked Panama Papers was killed Monday when a bomb exploded in her car, the prime minister said.

Alec Baldwin has reprised in his role as Donald Trump for the latest episode of Saturday Night Live’s Weekend Update, identifying the US president as the true martyr of the tragic Charlottesville rally.

When a fairly innocuous question about autopsy results in passports being confiscated and extra police being assigned to your hotel, you can’t help but wonder what the hell is going to happen, reporter Pete Stefanovic tells.

Qld grain director jailed over legume scam

A Queensland grain company director has been jailed and the company heavily fined for a scheme that saw large shipments of chickpeas sent to India without the proper pest treatment.

Woods Grain Pty Ltd was fined $680,000 and director Thomas Dudley Woods jailed for six months in the Brisbane District Court on Friday.

The court heard 68 shipments of the grain were exported to India having been treated with phosphine, not the mandatory methyl bromide, after the company submitted fake fumigation certificates between 2007 and 2009.

Commonwealth prosecutor Peter Callaghan SC said a fumigating operator gave signed, blank certificates to the company, allowing it to dupe federal officials into believing the chickpeas had been property treated.

The shipments were worth around $10 million in total and Mr Woods was involved in 16 of the 68 consignments.

The scheme was started by another director of the family company, but when Mr Woods became aware he helped cover it up, the court heard.

Judge Brendan Butler said the operation may have given the company a time advantage or a small financial advantage.